CBS loves Luther Vandross and so does Duke

I think CBS is far too proud of their whole "One Shining Moment" highlight package they air at the end of each NCAA Tournament but with the national championship game set to tip in less than an hour, I figured I would post all three of Duke's CBS tributes. And if Butler had ever won a national championship, I would post theirs too.

The 1991 and 1992 Duke teams were like a traveling circus with Christian Laettner, Bobby Hurley, Grant Hill, Brian Davis, Thomas Hill and Antonio Lang all playing key roles. Here is the 1991 video, which includes a jubilant Hurley after the national semifinal upset of UNLV and his famous alley-oop pass to Grant Hill for a thunderous dunk in the championship against Kansas:



Here is their 1992 montage from their win over Michigan's Fab Five. That team may have been as star-studded as Duke but it wasn't until the next season when they finally reached national rock-star status. The most famous game of that tournament was the epic regional final in Philadelphia when Duke beat Kentucky, 104-103, in overtime. It remains the greatest game I have ever seen. Two key moments in that game are in the montage: Laettner's stomping of Aminou Timberlake, a play that probably should have gotten him ejected from the game (he did receive a technical for his act), and of course his buzzer-beater to win it off the long in-bounds pass from Grant Hill. Laettner was 10-of-10 from the floor and 10-for-10 from the line for 31 points in perhaps the greatest individual performance of my lifetime in the tournament:



And finally, Mike Krzyzewski's third national championship game in 2001. The Blue Devils overcame a 22-point first half deficit in the national semifinal to the next year's champion Maryland before beating a very good Arizona team in the championship game. While this team wasn't as good as the 1991 and 1992 teams, it was loaded in its own right: Shane Battier, Jason Williams, Carlos Boozer, Mike Dunleavy and Chris Duhon all were a part of that team and all but Williams have had lengthy NBA careers (and Williams' wasn't lengthy because of a career-ending motorcycle accident). Here is the montage: